A/N: Aiming for Monday, now, Human Pikachu has the ball, running up the court…she SHOOTS! She EPICALLY misses! Human Pikachu is now BREAKING the basketball hoop! That's right, she is now SNAPPING the pole into pieces! She's DIGGING a hole, that's right, folks! She is now BURYING the pieces of the pole!

Me: -pops back up, covered in dirt- That was fun. :P

What's with you people reading and not reviewing? Review, please? You all know how that makes the authoress happy. And what if –gasp- that might mean more motivation for the third day updates I was talking about? Which might mean –another gasp- faster updates!

-gaspgaspgaspgaspgaspgasp!-

This is not my favorite chapter, the next one is (of the first part, anyway). See, the story's split into three parts, the first, second, and "third" (though that one's not really a date) date. You'll understand better when I get into the second part. The first is the shortest of the three parts and, unfortunately, the funniest. This is the only part that concerns Crystal, though she appears briefly in the third part. The second and third become a little more serious, but –gasps again, this time for air- there might be fluffiness!

-falls over, thereby ending the A/N-

Chapter Four

S.O.S.!

Luna and Crystal, the newfound friends, stepped outside of the little shop and looked around.

"Speaking of our guy, where is he? I haven't seen him since, like, an hour ago." Crystal said, puzzled and pulling her handbag tight over her shoulder. "He isn't mad at us, is he?" She asked worriedly.

"Annoyed, for sure, but not mad." Luna shrugged.

At the same time, as soon as she finished speaking, words were telepathically shot into her mind.

Hey, swan, if you're done flirting with that irksome female already, I'm over at the farthest table in the group of them on your right. Ditch the girl, please. I've known her for less than a day and she's already more exasperating than you. …If that's possible.

Luna sighed, rolling her eyes as she glanced to the right.

"Hey, Crys?" She said slowly. "I think Hekiashi wants me to go talk to him for a bit. You mind?"

Crystal's head snapped around to look at her.

"I thought you said he could be my man!" She whined instantly.

"He still is, Crys." Luna said patiently. "You go find your mom and help her, 'kay? You were always talking about how she always needs your help-"

"Fine then, I'm going, I'm going." Crystal grumbled, stalking off into the other direction, muttering angry things under her breath like 'friends' and 'are not supposed to take' and 'your man'.

Luna turned, her curls swinging, and walked to her right, and back to the farthest table.

Luna slid into the bright green chair, opposite from Hekiashi, who was silently watching her. His arms were resting on the cold, grey table. Luna fixed her pitch black skirt, crossing her ankles and looking back up at him, raising an eyebrow.

He swept his silver-white bangs out of his eyes and pushed the small red plate in front of him across the table. Luna caught them, glanced down at the plate of french fries quizzically, and looked back up.

"It is lunchtime." She said thoughtfully, looking to her right at the people sitting at the tables and eating. "I must have forgotten. Hm."

"Have them all." Hekiashi said indifferently. "I'm not hungry."

Luna shrugged and helped herself to one.

As Luna munched on the first of many fries, Hekiashi leaned forward, resting his chin on his hand., his eyes narrowing accusingly.

"I told you I had made plans
for you and me and no one else
that don't include your crazy friends-"

"My friends are not crazy!" Luna interrupted his quick song, looking up, scandalized. "That's not fair. At least I have friends." She changed the subject. "Is this all you called me over for?"

Hekiashi shook his head and continued, a frustrated expression on his face.

"Well, I'm done
with awkward situations
and empty conversations…"

"Well, I apologize for being so standoffish." Luna said sarcastically. "But, Hekiashi, I was under the impression you wanted me to be that distant?"

"Well, of course, while Crystal was there."

"What's the problem with Crystal?" Luna asked impatiently. "Crystal's just a bubbly little human female I would think you could easily deal with. And she's very friendly. She's not any more annoying than you are. Don't tell me you can't stand her."

Hekiashi put his hands to his side, as if severely wounded again. He was grinning slightly now, though.

"Oooh!
This is an S.O.S.
Don't wanna second guess
This is the bottom line,
It's true…"

"Oh, come on, Hekiashi." Luna rolled her eyes at him. "You're not dying or anything. Crystal's a good person. A little eccentric, perhaps, and I admit she can get a tad on your nerves with the singing, but other than that, she's fine!"

"You weren't the one she crashed into." Hekiashi muttered darkly.

Luna smiled slightly.

"You know, Hekiashi, she likes you." She leaned forward in her chair. "We were in that shoe store a second ago, and she's was asking all these questions about you. All she could talk about, I swear."

"Oh, Arceus, please spare me all the details." Hekiashi groaned.

"She claims that all her friends like you too, but, as they say, abiding by the girl code, she gets you first. The first thing out of her mouth was that if I didn't want you, she'd take you. She kept talking about how cute you were." Seriously. It should be illegal for someone to enjoy someone else's pain this much.

"Arceus, the derogatory adjectives!" Hekiashi covered his ears with his hands, mortified. "They make my ears burn! Burn!"

Luna smirked and waited until he could finally take his hands off of his ears. "So, Hekiashi, how does it feel to have a fan club?" She asked casually, looking down at her fingers and snacking on another handful of fries.

"God, when did I freaking ask for a fan club?!"

"When you got Crystal interested." Luna said, inconspicuously flicking dirt from under her fingernails and trying very hard not to start laughing.

"Did I ask for her to be interested, either?" Hekiashi demanded exasperatedly. "Did I ask for the singing and dancing shopping maniac to have a crush on me? Did I ask for all the freaking singing and dancing shopping maniacs – or, shall I say, all the girls in this mall right now – to be interested? Hell, I don't even date! I've never been on a date in my life!"

"Except for this one." She pointed out.

"Yeah." Hekiashi's expression changed. "Except for this one."

And so an awkward silence stretched out between them. It would have continued forever if Luna had not decided to speak a few minutes later.

"No, really," Luna continued nonchalantly. "She thinks I'm pretty crazy altogether for not liking you, either. She's keeps saying all her friends would just die for the chance for you to date one of them-"

"Luna, please… for the good of mankind, just shut the hell up."

Luna could only be silent for a moment before she finally added,

"But Crystal's the most interested, I can tell. She can't stop singing about you."

As soon as she finished speaking, she lost control over her laughter and it was a bit before she could get control of it again.

Hekiashi glared at her, but when she stopped, he then leaned back in his chair, mocking Luna's singing and attempting to do a high, girly voice:

"I gave my all for you,
Now my heart's in two
And I can't find the other half…"

"Oh, you pest!" Luna said, now exasperated, glowering at him. "That's not how I sing!"

"It's like I'm walking on broken glass…"Hekiashi sang, trying to go high pitched in mocking Luna and sounding overall kind of like a walrus.

Luna flicked a French fry at him. "You're incorrigible." She sighed. All her laughter from earlier was gone.

"Why, thank you."

"You know, Hekiashi, that's not supposed to be a good thi-"

"I'm sorry, am I interrupting something?"

Both Luna and Hekiashi looked up at Crystal. She had come back already, so soon. And did she look annoyed.

"Sorry I took so long," Crystal continued. "I had to go help out my mom. She's at the front desk, overseeing the guests setting up the Clefairy Convention that's going to be in the main entrance. There's so much to do. The Clefairy all have to be herded, and the stands have to be stood up, and the boxes have to be ready-"

Luna's eyes got all big and wide and sparkly.

"There's a Clefairy Convention?"

"Yeah," Crystal said, now a bit disturbed by Luna's sparkly eyes. "There are these breeders with hundreds of Clefairies, and every few years they come down and show them off-"

"Oh!" Luna sighed. "I want to go see them!"

"Oh, but Lu-Lu," Crystal groaned. "I've seen them all already! I thought we were going to go shopping!"

"Yeah, Luna, I'm not so thrilled to go see a bunch of pink blobs either." Hekiashi added lazily.

Luna's lower lip pulled into a pout as she looked back and forth between them. But then, her face brightened and she smiled. "That's okay! I can just…go by myself, and you two can go do something together. Don't let me ruin your fun!"

"What!" Hekiashi exclaimed, bolting upright, his blue eyes narrowing. "No!"

"That's sounds great!" Crystal agreed cheerfully, unperturbed. "And that way you can do what you want, and we can do what we want!"

"Who said I wanted this?" Hekiashi protested, horrorstruck. "I'm serious, I would rather die-"

"So, I'll meet up with you guys in an hour or so?" Luna offered, nodding at Crystal.

"Am I being completely left out of this conversation?" Hekiashi demanded, looking back and forth between the two girls he was stuck with.

"Right!" Crystal cheered joyfully. "We'll see you then, Luna! Good thinking! This way, everyone's happy!"

"But…" Hekiashi began weakly.

Luna was already hurrying off towards the up escalator, looking excited. Crystal watched her new friend go with a grin, and took Hekiashi's arm.

"Let's go, sweetie!"

And she began to drag him off in the other direction.

"Better believe I bled…It's a call I'll never get…"

:P

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